Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)
Pratt Institute
University of Southern California (USC)
Tulane University
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Temple University
University of Oregon
Cranbrook Academy of Art
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
Kansas State University
Which school? Which stream? pretty confused!
Hello everyone
i'm currently in my final year of a five year professional B.Arch program from Pune India and am looking at doing a M.Arch in the US.
After much research and talking to people, I have concluded that the professional 2 year M.Arch degree would the way to go as I'd retain the option to stay and work in the US as a licensed arch (after all the jazz about getting licensed, of course) or come back to India where all the action is (believe me, its true..).
I'm in a bit of a dilemma, however, about whether or not it would be prudent to spend this huge amount of money (i'm thinking $50,000?) to do a M.Arch in the US and then take the risk of not finding a job/not getting a H1B and having to come back to India with that huge debt, where the possibility to repay that kind of money would be impossible without having to win the state lottery.
Any thoughts about that?
Also, some of the schools i'm looking at and which SEEM to be in the range of my pecuniary capability are:
Texas A&M
V Tech
NJIT(jersey inst of tech)
UIUC (urbana champaign)
ASU (arizona)
NCSU (north carl.)
Colorado SU denver,
UT Houston
University of Virginia
SUNY buffalo...
whaddya guys think? any more u could suggest?
The NJIT course seems attractive to me but it looks like its not much in terms of a brand. Thoughts?
any advice/comments would be helpful and greatly appreciated.
Also, considering that things are lookin up in terms of the economy. how would you rate one's chances if one graduates from grad school in 2012?
cheers
Ninad
Wish I still had my crystal ball to predict what the economy here might be like in two years, but I had to sell it to help pay back some of my student loans....
My best guess is that there are still going to be US citizens lined up for jobs come 2012, especially in light of all of those who have gone back to school to remove themselves from the current market who will be returning to said market about the same time you do.
I'd do some more research on the H1B and see how the powers that be go about distributing them. Try to ascertain, with the utmost honesty, how likely it is that you could get/qualify for one.
If there's work in India, why not stay there and see how things pan out? Even though there is much buzz about the "waning" recession, I'm not convinced there's reason to bet on it.
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